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Humor aside, I agree with almost all of this. The extra innings and doubleheader rules from the Covid season honestly make me wish there hadn't been a season at all that year. The Astros trash can scandal also left me with a bad taste for baseball and how only Hinch and Cora felt any real punishment. Multiple players should have been banned for life for that shit and at the end of the day, opposing pitchers didn't even have the sack to throw at the bums and they managed to get to the World Series. Thankfully the baseball gods (and Jorge Soler) had other ideas for how it would end. The placement of the permanent DH in the National League also pisses me off.

Interesting. My friends and I have been on a ballpark tour over the last few years. Citi Field was up next before the pandemic. I still have $300 worth in tickets to use from 2020 this year before I lose them. Now that I know the price to park, I'll stay in NJ and take the train in.

I stopped reading at this because you summed everything up right there. There isn't a player alive right now, Trout, Acuña, Ohtani, Soto, Seager, Freeman, none of them, who are worth these $250 - 350M over the course of ten years deals just based on the risk for injury alone. It only takes one injury to potentially detonate a player and they'll never be close to what they're being paid and now you're in the back pages of a 300 page document looking for an out because a failed leap to catch a fly ball sent you crashing into the wall (Acuña) and now you're no longer a 40/40 candidate, or a second TJ surgery (Ohtani) has you relegated to DH for half of two seasons and you're finished pitching and have to hope you're able to learn centre field like Rick Ankiel, or your production goes down because they ****ed with the ball again. There's just so much uncertainty that I wouldn't bet on any player I just referenced aside from Trout and to a lesser extent Freeman, to just keep at a pace that dictates such a large deal.

I'm thinking another 60 game season is in store.

The day pitchers and catchers report is the day I begin losing interest in snow, outside of anything that may be MECS or HECS. If you show me in April a nor'easter that guidance shows me receiving 20" of snow? Sure, I'm all-in. But once I see footage of baseballs hitting catchers mitts, this T-2" bullshit is just an inconvenience to me.

I ran into this problem just NW of State College about 20 minutes ago

Made a trip down to Mifflin county, just outside of Lewistown to play basketball with some friends. The difference in tree appearance becomes night and day once you climb down 322 near Port Matilda. Virtually no ice on the trees and signage, meanwhile it remains an icy hell elsewhere. Grass is visible as well.

"Jumped the shark" is used to describe something that is no longer even remotely believable. Even for programming that is fictional. I don't think I've ever heard somebody say they enjoyed something that jumped the shark. Not even the episode of Happy Days for which that term earned it's namesake.

You see this folks? This is how you spend your time. I have some Winter Jack calling my name.

Took a trip into Clearfield. Roads are garbage and it's still snowing. Winter here is just so radically different from what years in the LSV conditioned me to experience.

Deicing the girlfriends SUV was like digging a shovel out of an iceberg. Holy ice.

Are you filming this run?

Nobody knows your last name on here, right? Spill.

Sleet has changed over to snow ensuring another period with a pack in place.

The pack in my yard was wasted this week and yesterday down to the layer of ice from the first event back in January. With the amount of rain we got yesterday and with the temperature near 40°F at one point, I had assumed we would have lost the entire pack, but that ice layer held serve. The pond by my doorstep is frozen and there appears to be a little more than a dusting of sleet on it. I can't wait to forget about the water just sitting there in a day or two and fall through the surface layer of ice, fall five inches through water and then roll my foot on the permafrost. I don't always roll a joint, but when I do, it's my ankle.

It continues to sleet here and the five inch pond has frozen over. In the spirit of the Olympiad, I will host short short track speed skating tomorrow morning with the areas babies.

Sleet

Looks like Pittsburgh and Mt Holly have added some flood watches into the mix. This would be a better question for our board red-tagger, but I wonder if it's rained or may rain enough for parts of the Juniata to get a similar treatment in some of the more vulnerable places like the Aughwick in Shirleysburg? For you Cumberland valley folks, how high are the waters there? Any concerns about the Conodoguinet or Swatara in spots?

I believe the trainer has been monitoring the snow levels in the Sierra Nevada and had recently reported a shutout for the month of January... https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/us/california-drought-snow-dry-january-climate/index.html

I have a five inch pond of water sitting on top of a solid sheet of ice by my front door. I cannot WAIT to see how this plays out as the cold air approaches.

This is the weirdest way for the rich to get richer lol. Does it hurt when you fall UP a flight of stairs?

The average blue haired old bitty and hill person from Snyder county doesn't read the forecast discussion. They also don't visit weather forums. They get their weather from their local weather man or country music radio station, who gets their forecast information from the NWS office in State College. As a result, CTP has a responsibility to not send everyone running to Weis for French toast mix and toilet paper every time the Euro has a five inches of freezing rain extravaganza out in fantasy land. Their disco can be more inside baseball because only nerds like us read them. The rest of them could be installed within the Library of Congress and they still wouldn't be picked up because most people in the CTP CWA freeze and lose their minds at "Library." So that's probably why they're more conservative and less "sky is falling."

I can't help but notice a lack of immediate denial of this one. I'm thinking @canderson's folks are getting weird right at this moment. Maybe @FHS's nanny is there with them.

Gang bang?

But let's crucify the NWS in State College for not hoisting EXTREME DEATH ICE alerts. Lol